Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-03-30
NEWS CONDENSED.
TeIegvaphic Summary Of lmpor.
tant Happenings at Home
and Abroad.
THE EAST.

IHE recent snOwstorm in New York
state was the heaviest OF the season, nearly
two feet falling The snow is piled in the
roads at Gloversyilla as high as the store
fronts, and snow tunnel Is used to enter
one hotel. In Hamilton County there is
ten feet on the ground on the level.
The stranded steamer Seo'ia pounded
heavily during the night and worked over
the outer bar, and is now lying between the
inner and outer bars. All the passengers
have been safely landed on shore ond the
revenue cutter U. s. Grant, with $50 OF
them on board, started for New York
shortly afterwards. The others are being
conveyed in small boats TO the barge Hng-
gerty. which lies off Rangers inlet. The
wind and sea have gone down and the
steamer is high and dry.
ARRANGEMENTS are being perfected in
New York city for the consolidation Of a
number of roads south of the lakes into a
system like that of the Richmond and
West Point Terminal Company. The
Louisville, New Albany and Chicago, Lake
Shore and Western and Cincinnati, Ham,
ilton and Dayton, will form the nucleus of
the system, and will compete for business
from the Mississippi to the Atlantic. The
Dayton and Delrhos railroad has been
fought by the Cincinnati and Dayton, and
will be used rs a connection with the Chi
cago and Atlantic. Most of the prime pal
stockholders in the Richmond Terminal
are interested in the new SYSTEM and If the
Stayor- Ives purchase of the Baltimore and
Ohio is successfully carried out the road
will be used for an Eastern connection.
THE vessel which went ashore NJ ar Blue
Point, Long Island, is the French steamer
Scotia, which sailed from Marseilles Feb
ruary 20, via Naples and Gibraltar for New
York. She is said to have large number
of passengers aboard. The Scotia is 1,62S
net and 2,492 gross tonnage. The life.
saving people have got n line to her, but
owing to the heavy surf have not been able
to do anything in the way of taking off pas.
sengers. She has thousand Italian i'm.
migrants on board.
AN accident occurred recently near Le-
tonia, Ohio, ON the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne
and Chicago Railway, by which one per-
son was killed and number OF passeng gers
injured. The express train which left Chi
cago in the morning had reached Letonia.
There is heavy grade at this point, and
the engineer discovered that the air brake
hose was leaking. He stopped the train
and while examining it a freight train cam
along and crashed into the rear, completely
telescoping sleeper and passenger car
next. Engineer William Beall, CT Alle-
gheny, who was underneath the engine at
the time, was horribly crushed and died
almost instantly. Eight passengers were
injured, among whom was. Mrs. Gray, Of
Minnesota.
SPECIAL from Buffalo, N. Y, dated
23d inst. says: Work on the ruins of the
Richmond Hotel was resumed this morn
ing. No bodies were found Mt last ac-
counts. Vim. Thompson, of Erie, and F.
D. Johnson, of Toronto, Ont, reported
missing in previous lists, are safe.
The New York Herald of the 23l inst
published an open letter from Archbishop
Lynch, of Toronto, Canada, TO Lord Ran
dolph Churchill. The Archbishop be-
seeches Lord Churchill TO lay aside all
party feeling and study the Irish question
in the light of justice to all men. He says
Il am confident, from your character of
uprightness and honor, that you will, Tor
this once. join Gladstone and bring pence
and prosperity to Ireland, and effect more
stable union between England and Ireland.
Help your country (England) out OF the
murky chaos i'll which she is and induce
her to do justice at length to Ireland